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11/25/2015 5:45AM

Documents Show Takata Concealed Airbag Testing Failures

Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal outlining practices dating from 2000 to 2010, show employees' concerns that Takata concealed testing failures and provided erroneous data in reports to Honda Motor Co. on some of its air-bag inflaters.

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